Apple and Verizon said to be working on an iPhone for 2010

People have been whistling pretty much the same tune for ages, but a new set of iPhone/Big Red rumors have emerged courtesy of USA Today. The paper has reportedly been informed by oh so typical “sources familiar with the situation” (aren’t newspapers adorable) that the iPhone is headed to Verizon in 2010 after AT&T’s exclusivity deal runs out. According to USA Today’s sources, the Verizon iPhone will run on its CDMA network — a notion that had been dismissed earlier as Verizon is planning its LTE roll out starting in 2010. Verizon’s CEO has also made it pretty clear in the past that there will never be a CDMA iPhone offered by Verizon. Then again, getting caught up in this CDMA vs LTE debate is quite irrelevant to most Americans who are more or less praying for an end to the AT&T iPhone exclusivity so that more carriers might offer popular device in the near future.

What are you refering too when you say “My only question is, will this iPhone sport wi-fi like its at&t counterpart??? We all know how limiting Verizon is when it comes to feature use on phones.”

Your post seems to imply that Verizon does not offer any devices with Wifi.

You can currently get 5 devices from Verizonwireless.com that have built-it Wifi.

joecurve

Could it be the much rumored i-phone “magnet”??
Anybody?********

shane

I call bullshit on this! Tim Cook said last week there were no plans for a CDMA iPhone for the US.

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BC

Who the hell wants a gimped iPhone?!

SpArkLeS

At Ilias:

You are 100% on point. Hate you break it to all you Verizon people but this is not going to be a likely outcome anytime soon considering the exclusivitey rights are at the VERY LEAST going to last till 2011 maybe even 2012.

StevenGlansburg

Verizon is just as expensive as AT&T. So who really cares? If it were on Sprint or T-Mobile I’d be more excited.

Don Louie

This might be Apple’s way of shutting down the Storm and the Pre at the same time

iPhone Home

since cdma is a ancient technology, and the fact that most of the world uses GSM i doubt a CDMA version of the iphone is in the works.

joecurve

@ Donnie
Well, the storm has Copy-paste, push Email that the i-phone lacks. But your right, it will affect those who bought the storm for their envy for the I-phone.
Bottom line. This is a great opportunity for verizon customer NOT to necessarily have to choose between good service and good devices. Flat out fantastic.

Robbie

Will someone explain why CDMA is “ancient technology” that sucks. I thought it had faster data transfer rates then GSM and shit like that.

http://ran-o-matic.com ran-o-matic

@Todzilla – What CDMA iPhone for China?

I know China (and India) both have significant CDMA coverage (something some posters seem to forget), but I didn’t know there was an Apple iPhone ready for that market.

Don Louie

@ iphone, in the States CDMA trumps GSM so that world thing doesn’t mean much for the 160M customer combined and that’s including the 90M they have

Lots of Verizon bloggers here I see. I must be in the wrong room. BTW, just try going into a Sprint, Verizon, or Alltel store and ask one of their reps to show you where the 3G icon is on their display models.

Sent from my iPhone using AT&T’s 3G network.

joecurve

@ sparkles
thanks scott, its baloney. their contract expires sometime in 2010, the whole 2012 thing stems from a rumor back in 2007 that ATT has a five year deal on this, the rumor had been questioned, debunked. as it stands now, big blue is desperate for a contract extension for another year until 2011 because as the Q report told us that their existence hinges on ‘apple the savior’.
if i am an apple exec, (its the dumbest thing to say, nevertheless the point is…..) in light of the booming popularity, i would open it to a variety of platforms, carriers.
and to the dismay of ATT, that looks like a reality.

dave

to whoever said watch people return their crappy storms.. while the storm is certainly not as polished as it should be, if the next version of the storm, or future software updates bring it up to speed with the Bold, there is no way i am going to not have another blackberry… I am way too addicted to my crackberry… i have a iphone (2G that i found a while back) and while the novelty of the apps and stuff is cool at first, it becomes useless and is sitting collecting dust in my room now…

Ally

Are people retarded? Come on, seriously.

It’s already been beaten to death. Verizon will get an iPhone when LTE is deployed. If even then.

AT&T has an exclusive agreement on the current iPhone. That’s a valid contract for the idiots that apparently don’t know this. Why BGR and other tech sits keep posting things about VZW and iPhone is beyond me. It won’t happen for at least another year, if not longer. Let’s hold out on letting the verizon fanboys loose until then at least.

Ally

But you’re forgetting that just last week a spokesperson for Apple said they were quite happy w/ their relationship w/ AT&T and had every intention to continue it.

How do people have such selective memory around here?

Ted T.

@joecurve Yeah, agreed the 2012 thing is just a rumor. But guess where that rumor came from — that’s right, USA Today, the very same USA Today that is now spreading equallyt bogus rumors about a Verizon iPhone.

Not gonna happen before LTE, which means 2011 at the VERY earliest.

@Todzilla: the only iPhone Apple sells in China is in Hong Kong, and that is an unlocked 3G, GSM phone. There is no GSM iPhone people, and never will be.

As for those asking what’s wrong with GSM: nothing. AT&T has an uneven at best network. Go to Europe, and you’ll find that GSM coverage is superb, everywhere you go.

Ted T.

@Ted T. “There is no GSM iPhone people, and never will be.” That of course should read: There is no CDMA iPhone people, and never will be.

Sam

you are right man, apple will be with at&t until 2012

joecurve

@ ted t
here is another piece of USATODAYhttp://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-01-28-verizon-iphone_x.htm
and you said: ‘There is no cdma iPhone people, and never will be”
guess what, THERE ALMOST WAS!!!!
but it just shows you that the first option for apple was to go to verizon and ATT got lucky that they (unfortunately) rejected it.
now, what’s so hard to understand this post? in 2010 it expires the contract by all acounts. of course the CEO, COO of the respective companies wont comment anything thats not official, thats why you see it on BGR and not as a ‘press release’ by them.

fernando

if the iPhone goes exclusivly to Verizon, then good bye iPhone, I’ll never go Verizon and their overrated network. As long as their is still a GSM varient of the iPhone though, then all will be good.

Mark

Nobody knows when the exclusivity with AT&T will expire. Once it does expire though, Apple will shop the iPhone around to other carriers the very next day. As for people saying why would Apple make another iPhone model when they can just sell more overseas? Well there is such a thing as market saturation and the iPhone’s saturation rate here in the states is probably very high since it only has a potential 78 million customers or so. Opening it up to not only Verizon, but also T-Mobile or possibly even Sprint gives Apple another 167 milllion or so potential customers. Apple may be considering this. Even Nokia has finally realized that they just can’t ignore Verizon and their 86 million customers. Apple also probably doesn’t sell nearly as many iPhones overseas as they do here in the states. As far Apple saying that the relationship with AT&T is going great that’s more than likely just for public image. I don’t think Apple was too happy when they got complaints about the phone not surfing the internet fast enough over 3G. Especially when AT&T said that their network was fine and it was Apple’s fault.

Scott

There were flaws in apples 2.0 software network wise. It wasn’t fixed all the way until 2.2 And I know this bacause my razr2 would get better 3G then my iPhone in some places. But, as far as I’m concerned, I left verizon 3 years ago and I couldn’t be happier!